Wednesday in Limbo
I've done all of the tasks that I needed to do for my now totaled car's claim to be paid and I sit here waiting in limbo until the check is issued. Once that happens I'll be out trying to find a used car that won't crap out after the 30 day warranty expires, for the very limited amount I'll have to spend. I won't take on car payments unless there is no other choice. Should be interesting.
Meanwhile, let's look at headlines and some thoughts on them.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spoke out at his sentencing hearing, apologizing for his role in the Boston bombings. Reporter's note: Far too little, far too late. Let him spend the rest of his miserable life in prison, contemplating his crimes.
Louisiana's governor Bobby Jindal tossed his hat into the ring on Wednesday via Twitter. It landed right next to Donald Trump's toupee. Reporter's note: The sad thing is that Jindal, once a rising star in Republican politics is running dead last in the polls of possible Republican candidates, far behind even the Donald.
Police are searching for two men who beat and robbed a deaf man sitting outside a Coffee Bean in Riverside near the Main Street Mall. They took his MACbook. Reporter's note: Scumbags.
It looks like President Obama will no longer stay overnight at the New York City Waldorf-Astoria Hotel since its purchase by Chinese business interests. There is speculation about the switch being due to the purchase while others claim it may be to avoid any eavesdropping equipment being installed in a renovation of the property. Reporter's note: Probably a bit of both.
Speaking of President Obama, he ordered that a heckler be removed from the East Room of the White House saying "Listen you're in my house ... it's not respectful" in response to the heckler. An immigrant's rights group later claimed the heckler is one Jennicet Gutiérrez, in the U. S. illegally. Reporter's note: No disrespect intended Mr. President, but that's the people's house. You just live there while serving as President. However, no one should heckle the president, anywhere.
A former inmate at the Clinton Correctional Institute in New York is saying that he witnessed an ongoing relationship between one of the two prisoners who escaped recently and the prison worker who has been charged with aiding in their escape. Reporter's note: Prison employees are subject to physical and psychological manipulation by the inmates, who have unlimited time to work on such things. They need better training to recognize and resist this kind of thing.
Police are searching the Sacramento area for a man accused of stabbing three male musicians because they were wearing skinny jeans. Timothy Brownell had turned himself in and was released on bond, but a warrant for his arrest was issued after the attack was classified as a "hate crime." None of the three musicians suffered life-threatening injuries. A fundraiser is being organized to benefit the three, with organizers asking all who attend to wear skinny jeans. Reporter's note: If I were in that area, I'd be going to the fundraiser but not in skinny jeans. With 19" calf muscles and 23" or bigger thighs, they don't make skinny jeans in my size.
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Let's be clear. President Obama did not call anyone a "n****r" during the podcast where he stands accused of using that word. What he said was: "And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say 'nigger' in public" (Reporter's note: since this is a direct quotation I won't censor that word, although I do in almost all instances).
The following link is to a video that displays every single use of every form of the N-word in the movie Django Unchained. Youtube video If you don't feel like watching the 110 times it's said, don't click the link. Spike Lee boycotted this film because of this particular word count. After all, Mr. Lee only used that word eight times in his Do the Right Thing. Then again in his film Bamboozled various forms of the N-word are used 74 times. So what's the difference?
Imagine for a moment the incredible amount of outrage that any president prior to President Obama would have created by saying exactly what the current president said in using the N-word? What's the difference? The difference is that like it or not, it's far less acceptable for anyone other than an African-American to use this particular word.
I know that were I to use that word (not that I ever would) I would probably get a reaction like what we see at 55 seconds into this video:
Context. The key is context. When you're describing (accurately no less) the situation our society finds itself in, it makes perfect sense to say what President Obama said.
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Sequels I'd Like to See:
Some of these aren't possible, others might be:
Undercover Brother Does Another - Another spoof that is. The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. once against calls on Undercover Brother to work with Conspiracy Brother, Smart Brother, Sistah Girl, White She-Devil and a new member of the group, Pale Brother to once again battle The Man.
Shawshank Re-Redeemed - Donald Trump is imprisoned in a maximum security facility in Mexico for verbal crimes against the Mexican people. His daughter Ivanka contacts Andy Dufrense and Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding in Zihuatanejo and hires them to try to break her father out of the prison. They finally decide to smuggle a rock hammer into the prison inside of a copy of Trump's book "The Art of the Deal." However, The Donald refuses to stoop to manual labor, deciding he'd rather remain behind bars.
Pulp Fiction II: More Freshly Squeezed Pulp - Jules Winnfield, back from a 20 year spiritual journey returns to Inglewood to find Marcellus Wallace in need of his services. Jules is paired with Vic Vega, Vincent Vega's brother. Seems The Wolf dallied with the wife of a good friend of Marcellus Wallace and payback has been demanded.
13 Angry Men: The Anger Grows - A jury and the one remaining alternate have stayed the course through an 11 months long trial. Now after six weeks of deliberating they are deadlocked 11-1 to convict with the one holdout refusing to change his position. The other 11 jurors refuse to allow a mistrial and begin to psychologically torture the lone holdout in hope he'll have a breakdown. Then the remaining alternate can join the jury and convict the accused once and for all.
The Second Green Mile - John Coffey is long dead, and guard Paul Edgecomb is living well into his second century when he encounters a young woman named Jessica Carter. She is the reincarnation of John Coffey and promises Paul she will make it so he will live forever. Unwilling to live additional centuries, he rigs a makeshift electric chair and executes her; then taking his own life.
Full Metal Jacket II: Jacket and Tie Required - In the post-Vietnam era Joker now lives in Los Angeles and owns a comedy club where male patrons must wear jacket and tie. He sits in a booth overlooking the stage and when comedians aren't funny (in his opinion) he shoots them with paintballs.
Goodfellas II: The Good Fellas in the Afterlife - Paulie, Jimmy Conway and their guys have set up shop in Hell. They managed to compromise Satan who now looks the other way as they extort and steal what little is good in the underworld. When Henry Hill passes away they seek to have him sent to Hell so they can finally extract their revenge.
Meanwhile, let's look at headlines and some thoughts on them.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spoke out at his sentencing hearing, apologizing for his role in the Boston bombings. Reporter's note: Far too little, far too late. Let him spend the rest of his miserable life in prison, contemplating his crimes.
Louisiana's governor Bobby Jindal tossed his hat into the ring on Wednesday via Twitter. It landed right next to Donald Trump's toupee. Reporter's note: The sad thing is that Jindal, once a rising star in Republican politics is running dead last in the polls of possible Republican candidates, far behind even the Donald.
Police are searching for two men who beat and robbed a deaf man sitting outside a Coffee Bean in Riverside near the Main Street Mall. They took his MACbook. Reporter's note: Scumbags.
It looks like President Obama will no longer stay overnight at the New York City Waldorf-Astoria Hotel since its purchase by Chinese business interests. There is speculation about the switch being due to the purchase while others claim it may be to avoid any eavesdropping equipment being installed in a renovation of the property. Reporter's note: Probably a bit of both.
Speaking of President Obama, he ordered that a heckler be removed from the East Room of the White House saying "Listen you're in my house ... it's not respectful" in response to the heckler. An immigrant's rights group later claimed the heckler is one Jennicet Gutiérrez, in the U. S. illegally. Reporter's note: No disrespect intended Mr. President, but that's the people's house. You just live there while serving as President. However, no one should heckle the president, anywhere.
A former inmate at the Clinton Correctional Institute in New York is saying that he witnessed an ongoing relationship between one of the two prisoners who escaped recently and the prison worker who has been charged with aiding in their escape. Reporter's note: Prison employees are subject to physical and psychological manipulation by the inmates, who have unlimited time to work on such things. They need better training to recognize and resist this kind of thing.
Police are searching the Sacramento area for a man accused of stabbing three male musicians because they were wearing skinny jeans. Timothy Brownell had turned himself in and was released on bond, but a warrant for his arrest was issued after the attack was classified as a "hate crime." None of the three musicians suffered life-threatening injuries. A fundraiser is being organized to benefit the three, with organizers asking all who attend to wear skinny jeans. Reporter's note: If I were in that area, I'd be going to the fundraiser but not in skinny jeans. With 19" calf muscles and 23" or bigger thighs, they don't make skinny jeans in my size.
* * *
Let's be clear. President Obama did not call anyone a "n****r" during the podcast where he stands accused of using that word. What he said was: "And it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say 'nigger' in public" (Reporter's note: since this is a direct quotation I won't censor that word, although I do in almost all instances).
The following link is to a video that displays every single use of every form of the N-word in the movie Django Unchained. Youtube video If you don't feel like watching the 110 times it's said, don't click the link. Spike Lee boycotted this film because of this particular word count. After all, Mr. Lee only used that word eight times in his Do the Right Thing. Then again in his film Bamboozled various forms of the N-word are used 74 times. So what's the difference?
Imagine for a moment the incredible amount of outrage that any president prior to President Obama would have created by saying exactly what the current president said in using the N-word? What's the difference? The difference is that like it or not, it's far less acceptable for anyone other than an African-American to use this particular word.
I know that were I to use that word (not that I ever would) I would probably get a reaction like what we see at 55 seconds into this video:
Context. The key is context. When you're describing (accurately no less) the situation our society finds itself in, it makes perfect sense to say what President Obama said.
* * *
Sequels I'd Like to See:
Some of these aren't possible, others might be:
Undercover Brother Does Another - Another spoof that is. The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. once against calls on Undercover Brother to work with Conspiracy Brother, Smart Brother, Sistah Girl, White She-Devil and a new member of the group, Pale Brother to once again battle The Man.
Shawshank Re-Redeemed - Donald Trump is imprisoned in a maximum security facility in Mexico for verbal crimes against the Mexican people. His daughter Ivanka contacts Andy Dufrense and Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding in Zihuatanejo and hires them to try to break her father out of the prison. They finally decide to smuggle a rock hammer into the prison inside of a copy of Trump's book "The Art of the Deal." However, The Donald refuses to stoop to manual labor, deciding he'd rather remain behind bars.
Pulp Fiction II: More Freshly Squeezed Pulp - Jules Winnfield, back from a 20 year spiritual journey returns to Inglewood to find Marcellus Wallace in need of his services. Jules is paired with Vic Vega, Vincent Vega's brother. Seems The Wolf dallied with the wife of a good friend of Marcellus Wallace and payback has been demanded.
13 Angry Men: The Anger Grows - A jury and the one remaining alternate have stayed the course through an 11 months long trial. Now after six weeks of deliberating they are deadlocked 11-1 to convict with the one holdout refusing to change his position. The other 11 jurors refuse to allow a mistrial and begin to psychologically torture the lone holdout in hope he'll have a breakdown. Then the remaining alternate can join the jury and convict the accused once and for all.
The Second Green Mile - John Coffey is long dead, and guard Paul Edgecomb is living well into his second century when he encounters a young woman named Jessica Carter. She is the reincarnation of John Coffey and promises Paul she will make it so he will live forever. Unwilling to live additional centuries, he rigs a makeshift electric chair and executes her; then taking his own life.
Full Metal Jacket II: Jacket and Tie Required - In the post-Vietnam era Joker now lives in Los Angeles and owns a comedy club where male patrons must wear jacket and tie. He sits in a booth overlooking the stage and when comedians aren't funny (in his opinion) he shoots them with paintballs.
Goodfellas II: The Good Fellas in the Afterlife - Paulie, Jimmy Conway and their guys have set up shop in Hell. They managed to compromise Satan who now looks the other way as they extort and steal what little is good in the underworld. When Henry Hill passes away they seek to have him sent to Hell so they can finally extract their revenge.
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